WB and Maguire Adapting Robotech

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WB and Maguire Adapting Robotech

September 7, 2007

Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up the rights to bring anime classic "Robotech," which featured giant robots known as mechas, to the big screen. "Spider-Man" franchise star Tobey Maguire is producing through his Maguire Entertainment and is eyeing the lead role in what the studio plans on being a tentpole sci-fi franchise.

"We are very excited to bring 'Robotech' to the big screen," Maguire said. "There is a rich mythology that will be a great foundation for a sophisticated, smart and entertaining film."

Drew Crevello also is producing through his Supercool Hollywood BigTime Productions. Craig Zahler (The Brigands of Rattleborge) will write the screenplay.

"Robotech" was a cartoon series during the 1980s from Harmony Gold USA and Tatsunoko Productions. It was re-edited and re-dialogued to combine three Japanese anime series to give the producers enough episodes to air as a daily syndicated series.

A sprawling sci-fi epic, Robotech takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off three successive waves of alien invasions. The first invasion concerns a battle with a race of giant warriors who seek to retrieve their flagship's energy source known as "protoculture," and the planet's survival ends up in the hands of two young pilots.

Frank Agrama of rights-holder Harmony Gold will executive produce; Jason Netter will serve in a producer capacity.

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Posted by: TJ on July 5, 2008 at 16:35:04

hell yeah! i love mechs, vts, powersuits! all dat ****. wish i had 1 4real!

Posted by: SLADE KILLAH on July 5, 2008 at 21:55:57

Sounds good can't wait to see it.

Posted by: Jazreal on July 5, 2008 at 23:53:18

Meh...I would much rather see Battletech(same mechs, just two completley different storys as the two that created these mechs had different opinions on how the story should develope...one went to Japan and made Robotech, while the other, and better more realistic stayed in America and made Battletech) come to the big-screen. Michael Stackpole could do a much better job as he wrote the heart of the Battletech Novels. Ya, Robotech is way to anime and unrealistic. Battletech is more realistic and waaaaay better characters and story. oh well.

Posted by: g on August 5, 2009 at 09:47:01

Jazreal, WOW, Battletech and Robotech are not the same mechs in any way you could compare them, are you dumb? they are completely different! Battletech is a video game! I personally think Robotech is way better and cooler, beyond anything i have seen from Battletech, its more intelligent and complex, both the story and the designs. maybe you needed more milk while you where growing up.

Posted by: Informant on August 5, 2009 at 14:28:04

To Dylan119,

sounds like you just hate, and generalize, because there is a whole plethora (that means a lot) of stories and ideas you are missing because you think they are for geeks. Watch Jin Roh, or Grave of the Fireflies, definitely not for children, nor would anyone with half an iota of an IQ point call it crap.

To Jazreal,

They were developed by the people who created the Macross series which Robotech came from, and if you watch either Robotech or Macross carefully, you will see them all in the background. Macross came in about the 1982-83 season, Robotech came in about 1983-84, and Battletech came in about 1985, I know cause I actually have the original set. Also It was created and owned by the Japanese, and the Battletech people FASA, bought the rights to use them, which is why The Robotech toys over here looked vastly different (and inferior) to the ones released in Japan.

to g

I agree, Robotech is a far superior and more complex storyline to Battletech. I read most of the Battletech novels, and found most of them to be ok at best, and abyssmal generally. There are no true characters to follow, even the black swan character "Kerensky". Robotech and Macross were just overall better, and had a lot of cool characters, plus Robotech had a great ongoing storyline, whereas most American cartoons at the time were neatly wrapped up by the end of the 17-21 minute show. It's episodic nature lent to better storytelling than most, and they also killed off main characters, and had a more real world approach to things, which I enjoyed a lot more than watching He-man, GI Joe and Transformers.

Posted by: Darth Davius on August 5, 2009 at 14:41:57

this is going to suck big, don't you learn with dragonball evolution, come on! cowboybebop with keanu reeves? priest without long hair even?(nott mention the lack of sense of the history,) akira in neo manhattan (or something like that), when you gonna learn that anime don't has to be made in hollywoon, and, come on tobey ***** macguire playing rick hunter? not even talk about the valkyries/veritechs sure they gonna suck to

Posted by: JoSto on August 5, 2009 at 15:55:03

My God. The comments around here have freaking gone down hill fast. Nothing but childish trash talking, this sucks, that sucks...it's stupid. If you don't like it, fine, don't, by why do I have to sift through all this childish crap to actually read a thoughtful response. I'll even go as far as this...ok, say you don't like the story...good for you! Explain your reasons and move on. All these broad comments like this is stupid because I say so just proves that maybe you need to step back and relax. Not everything is made to please everyone, doesn't mean you need to try and trash it and hope it fails. Just saying...I would say 65%-70% of the post on this site is childish garbage. Grow up.

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